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title: Me and My Ghost
created: 2026-10-16 03:51
updated: 2026-10-16 03:51
revision: 1
author: Auriea
summary: "new page: Me and My Ghost, webcam self-portraits made with nato, 2001-2002"
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[[SelfPortrait]] · [[NATO]]

Me and My Ghost — webcam self-portraits from 2001–2002: me at the computer, caught live through the realtime effects I was building in Max/MSP with nato.0+55 — custom, self-made generative software running on my own face. Every frame was saved the moment it happened and named for the second it was taken (ghost.2001.11.18.15.47.33); 755 of them survive in the archive. The camera as self-portrait tool and as surveillance device at once — an early precursor to the 3D self-scanning that underlies so much of my work now.

[[thumb:MeAndMyGhost-1|800]]

In 2022 the archive became a collection on objkt; in 2024 a set of the frames was upscaled, to take advantage of new glitches.

[[thumb:MeAndMyGhost-2|400]] [[thumb:MeAndMyGhost-3|600]]

Exhibited in *Old Master*, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, 2026.

See also [[MedusasMirror]], the webcam mirror whose first version was also built with nato, and [[NATO]], a browser klone of the library itself.

- https://auriea.art/webcam/me-and-my-ghost/
- https://objkt.com/collections/KT1ERJwCZGPNwarxhxVmXBjh96pchnTMpHNi

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